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Using Call Data Record As a means of faceless arrest.

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8) Due to lack of facilities in my country, I try to attain law enforcement and arrest offenders who threaten people with mobile or negotiate kidnaps, though i dont have any formal knowledge of mobile forensic. The knowledge I have is got out of research and investigative experience over time. Over the years i ve been able to attain success. Below is an extract from Thisday Newspaper on one of my cases. I need your help pls!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THISDAY NEWSPAPER(www.thisdayonline.com)
But for MTN…
Polscope …with Eddy Odivwri,Emailedwintops2000@yahoo.com, 04.04.2009

It would have been an uphill task trying to track =hose fellas. They had left the scene of crime almost without a trace. Nobody imagined =hat we later found out. I am talking, again, about the kidnap and murder of my =ather last December. The kidnappers had left an MTN number through which they =ould be reached. We tried the numbers. We got them. We had rounds and rounds of =hat, many of them with menacing implications. As told, they asked for the =20,000 MTN recharge cards. We sent them, and they were loaded. We then approached =TN to help locate those who loaded the recharge cards sent. That they should =lso help identify the location from where the kidnappers, nay murderers, =ere dialoguing with us. We wanted to be sure. After my father’s corpse had =een found, the knaves knew so and then threw away the SIM card with which we =ad been communicating with them. By that, they thought, every evidence =gainst them had been destroyed. Fate and technology had a different verdict. It was =ust the beginning of another chapter.
At first, bureaucracy almost set in =ith MTN. Mr A wanted an approval from Mr B, who will need the confirmation of Mr = before acting. The approval chain was rather nebulous and even =rustrating. The sense of urgency that should accompany such incident was near absent. =or a few days, we hoped against hope that the guys will be tracked. I then =eached my friend, Andrew Okeleke, a staff of MTN whose effort to get the =anagement to intervene faster, was accelerated by one of his bosses, Mr Bola =kingbade, who took more than passing interest in the story. Even from his vacation =hen, he gingered his organisation with near desperation to “quickly assist”. =here was this fellow, a young operative of the SSS (who can’t be named), who demonstrated, in my opinion, great brilliance, focus and deep =nalytical mind in the pursuit of the investigation. He had assured that “if MTN co-operates, we will get those boys.”
For once, I realised that we =eally exist by the grace of God and at the mercy of the system we live in. The =ystem is so interwoven that there is hardly a clean circumvent of it without =ire consequences.
Some documents had to be written, sent, received and =pproved, from one agent of the system to another before anything can be done. And =rust bureaucracy, they take their time. Anyhow, when the investigation proper =commenced, I got to know of a telecoms technology called IMEI =International Manufacturer Equipment Identity), through which the serial number =f every handset gets registered on the broad network of the service =rovider, probably unknown to the caller. By that facility, even when you swap SIM =ards on a handset, the caller can still be tracked, even after the earlier =IM card had been destroyed or thrown away. And that was what happened. Soon as =he MTN gave the investigator access to the IMEI facility, the entire call data =f the knaves was laid bare, including even the calls on the new SIM card. We =ould see the time and date of our calls to the criminals, the time and date of =ur SMS to them, etc. Eureka! I shouted with triumphant flourish. It is =cience at its infallible best. The locations, and other such sensitive details =ere all contained in the data base supplied by the MTN. The SSS operative, even =n the height of his wedding preparations, launched out into the crime lake of =he state. His assurances were re-assuring. With the =nassailable MTN data at his disposal, he boasted he could burst every crime committed =ith GSM phone.
Indeed, the crime of kidnapping only got boosted with the =dvent of GSM. Without that service, how would kidnappers be reaching the =elations of their victims on the negotiation for ransom?
Well, the SSS operatives =eventually nabbed the bad guys early January with the handset with which =ll the negotiations for ransom were made with us. Our text messages were found =n the phone. Their voices had been recorded during some of those =onversations.
The first suspect had been arrested in Jesse, near Sapele, and taken to =braka where his partner was to be picked up. Surveillance in Abraka had shown the =ther fellow was a marijuana seller. The one picked at Jesse was thus =andcuffed (to the back) and feet-cuffed and locked up in the (upstairs) hotel =oom of the SSS guys while they went to arrest the Indian hemp seller. Before =hey came back, the guy chained legs and hands had vanished. Neither the door, =indow nor ceiling of the room was broken. The lock was not vandalized. Yet the guy =escaped. It was a mystery? The SSS guys, bemused, launched a search of =he felon to the hotel’s generator area, adjoining bush and almost everywhere, =ut the guy will not be seen. On instinct, they came back to the hotel checked under =he staircase, and lo, there was the suspect blinking his eyes faster than =ormal; nestling himself behind empty cans of Paint buckets, hands and feet =till cuffed. Wonderful! How did he escape from a locked room? Nobody had an answer.
From that moment the SSS operatives realised they were =ealing with a weird and metaphysical fellow.
Between then and a few weeks ago, investigations had been going on, reports written all in preparation for =arraignment. Finally, the suspects, six altogether, five of whom were =rraigned last Thursday in Orogun Magistrate Grade 2 court, with two-count charge =f conspiracy and murder. Three of the suspects will be used as prosecution =witnesses. With the adjournment of the matter till June 30, there are =lear signs that it will be a long-drawn legal battle. But in all, we have MTN =o thank for the facilities provided, co-operation given and the interest eventually shown on the matter. And but for the viciousness and =rofessional dexterity of the SSS guys, we would have been nibbling at “material =vidences” to prosecute the suspected killers of our father whom we gave a final =uneral last February. And so we thank again, all those who have been by us, =hile it all lasted, especially Mr Ochuko Ejaigu, the chief co-ordinator of the =uneral programmes, Mrs Doris Orogun, Mrs Harriet Amuah, Mr Nyore Ugherughe, Mr =am Obiunwevwi,Tony Ese, Allison Abanum etc.

 
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